In the face of the aggressive congressional delegates, he never thought that the comrades-in-arms who had restrained Duan Qirui with him in the past had rebelled so quickly, wasn't Duan Qirui, whom he dismissed, their unanimous enemy? Just when he was puzzled, he suddenly thought of his old boss, Emperor Hongxian, Yuan Shikai, who is also the president, can't he dissolve the parliament himself? Thinking of this, he smiled coldly, and immediately issued an order to dissolve the Congress, driving those former colleagues out of Beijing, standing in the presidential palace and watching these congressmen leave, his heart was sad and happy and a little unbearable, thinking that it would not be long before Zhang Xun, the head of the Governor Corps, was about to enter Beijing, he couldn't help but be secretly happy in his heart, Zhang Xun was the only loyal minister with a heavy army after the abdication of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, because of his loyalty to the previous dynasty, He did not cut off his braids, and was ridiculed by the Beiyang Army and fooled by the revolutionary party. This kind of encounter made him think of his current self, maybe this person will become a good friend after entering Beijing, if not he can help him suppress those proud revolutionaries and Beiyang overseers.

Looking forward to, looking forward to, finally looking forward to Zhang Xun's three thousand whip army, Li Yuanhong was very happy, personally stretched out his hand to pull him into the presidential palace to ask for warmth, talk about the form of the country, maybe it is a similar situation, although Zhang Xun is vulgar, but some words have been said in Li Yuanhong's heart, as if he has become a close friend, who knows that this close friend in a similar situation stayed in Beijing for half a month, that is, on July 1, he actually put on the blue gauze robe of the previous dynasty, a yellow coat, and a red-topped flower hat, leading Liu Tingchen, Kang Youwei, Chen Yi, Shen Zengzhi, Wang Shizhen, Jiang Chaozong and several braided army commanders, a total of more than 50 people, brazenly entered the Forbidden City, regardless of the opposition of Prince Alcohol, moved the little emperor out, put it on the palace of nourishing the heart, and then led everyone to bow three times and bow nine times to the little emperor. Pu Yi also issued a pre-written "enthronement edict", saying that "the republic has disintegrated, and the remedy has been exhausted", announcing that he would come to the government in person and take back power.

After Li Yuanhong received the news, he was shocked, his heart was painful and hurt, he never expected Zhang Xun to play such a hand, looking at Zhang Xun who led the troops into the presidential palace, he said with infinite regret: "Why did you do this? ”

Zhang Xun sighed and said: "When I was about to starve to death in Jiangxi, Lafayette recruited me to be a soldier, and promoted me step by step to become such a big official, this favor I can't repay Lafayette, so I can only use it on the emperor." ”

Li Yuanhong said: "Dear friend, now it's a republic, Emperor Hongxian is strong and strong and defeated in three months, how many days can you support the little emperor?" ”

Zhang Xun smiled and said: "The overseers said that they all supported my emperor to re-register, in fact, even if there was no them, my old Zhang would risk death to say that the emperor would help him get on the horse and take a ride to repay the kindness of his acquaintance." ”

Li Yuanhong said: "Emperor Hongxian has taken this step, and his reputation for half his life has been ruined, and if you leave, I am afraid that you will also be infamy!" ”

Zhang Xun said with a smile: "If we are alive, we will be scolded to death by those revolutionary parties, I am not afraid of being alive, but will I be afraid of death?" I haven't spent any books, and I still know about it, so even if it is an abyss under this step, I have to go to him, that is, I died and saw Lafayette, she asked, what have I done for the Qing Dynasty, and I have a good excuse No! ”

"Looks like you've got your attention!" After Li Yuanhong finished speaking, he slowly closed his eyes and said, "Kill me!" ”

Zhang Xun said: "President, you are my confidant, I am reluctant to kill you, you better run!" If it is really like what you said, if the emperor's dragon court is not stable, you can still be your president, and it will not be in vain for you and me to have a relationship. After speaking, he waved his hand, and let these pigtailed soldiers behind him send Li Yuanhong into the car behind him and send him out of Beijing City.

Out of Beijing City, the pigtail soldiers stopped and said, "Out of Beijing City, where is the master going?" ”

Li Yuanhong thought about it, it seemed that the world was so big, and he only had that place to go, so he sighed and said, "Go to Hubei!" ”

The two pigtailed soldiers glanced at each other and pushed out a person: "Master, that place is too far away, why don't I send you to Tianjin!" You go there and want to go abroad, you go there if you want to go there. ”

Li Yuanhong nodded and said, "Okay, just listen to you, and let you make a little money." ”

The two pigtailed soldiers were overjoyed when they heard this: "Thank you for your kindness, you can rest assured that you will be comfortable on the way to Tianjin......

Before the words fell, the two pigtailed soldiers fell to the ground, Li Yuanhong was startled, and hurriedly looked around, to see a handsome young man with four or five people smiling at him.

Li Yuanhong said: "Who are you?" ”

The young man walked over and bowed to Li Yuanhong and said: "The Guangdong and Jiangxi patrol envoys Tang Baichuan visited the president, Zhang Xun has no way, restored Manchuria, and is late to save the driver, and I hope the president will forgive me!" ”

Li Yuanhong said: "Where are you going to take me?" ”

Tang Baichuan said: "Guangzhou! ”

After speaking, the two men behind Tang Baichuan stood up, stuffed Li Yuanhong into the car, waved his hand at Tang Baichuan, and went south to Guangzhou.

After explaining all this, Tang Baichuan turned around and went to Tianjin, everything was done, and he was going to return to Guangzhou.

Zhang Xun's restoration caused an uproar, but except for the newspaper crusade, no one seems to take it seriously, compared to Emperor Hong Xian, it was really like a child's play, that is, Tang Jiyao, who started with opposition to the imperial system, did not plan to send troops, just when Zhang Xun thought it was a spring dream, Duan Qirui in Tianjin was in the suburbs of Tianjin, Li Changtai's 8th Division stationed in Machang, Feng Yuxiang stationed in Langfang, and Cao Kun's 3rd Division stationed in Baoding formed a rebel army. Duan Qirui served as the commander-in-chief, Duan Zhigui was the commander of the rebel army on the east road, and Cao Kun was the commander of the rebel army on the west road; The headquarters counselors are Liang Qichao, Tang Hualong, Xu Shuzheng, and Li Changtai; The general staff is Jin Yunpeng, the senators are Fu Liangzuo and Qu Tongfeng, and the power generation crusades against Zhang Xun.

Chang Zhenbang had already judged from Tang Baichuan's telegram that Zhang Xun's restoration was nothing more than a farce used by the Overseer Army to disgust the government and weaken the central government. It didn't last much time, in order to show his determination to protect the country and rebel, when Zhang Xun was still on the way to Beijing, Chang Zhenbang, who was located in Guangdong, announced that he was beckoning to prepare to attack Zhang Xun and his evil henchman Li Houji, the overseer of Fujian, and arranged for Li Tingyu to lead Yue Zhaolin in eastern Jiangxi, and Hu Zhong, the commander of the fourth division in Jiangxi, to prepare for entering the city of Fujian from Nanping, and he commanded Wang Xifeng's troops and Shen Hongying's troops from Zhangzhou to Fuzhou, accompanied by Duan Qirui's horse factory oath. The Yuejiang patrol envoy Yamen also issued an announcement to crusade against the rebel Zhang Xun. At this time, Chang Zhenbang's army had taken the unprepared Zhangzhou and Nanping respectively, and successfully joined the city of Fuzhou, and issued a request to Fujian overseer Li Houji to let Cheng not go, return to Beijing to report on his work, Li Houji was furious, immediately ordered to bombard Chang Zhenbang's department, Chang Zhenbang did not show weakness and immediately commanded four divisions outside Fuzhou City to attack and attack the unprepared Fuzhou City at the same time, less than half a day Kung Fu Fuzhou City fell into the hands of Chang Zhenbang, Fuzhou Overseer Li Houji was caught off guard, and was captured by Chang Zhenbang before he left Fujian Province.

Chang Zhenbang sat in the yamen of the Fujian Overseer, looked at Li Houji, who was a little embarrassed, and said with a smile: "Brother Li, I am really sorry for my long greetings!" ”

Li Houji glared at him and said, "Lord Chang, at the same time, Beiyang is in the same vein, why don't you miss the old love and attack my Fuzhou?" ”

Chang Zhenbang said: "When the first president was in power, he often said that Beiyang should be united, Zhenbang did not forget one day, and now Zhang Xun has been restored, poisoning the world, although I am full of respect for your Houji brother, I also have to do a righteous act of killing relatives, saving the people of Fujian from the restoration of the poison, and I hope that Houji brother understands." ”

"Phew!" Li Houji said angrily: "Don't say high-sounding words in front of Lao Tzu, you Chang Zhenbang also sent a representative at the Xuzhou Conference, and the name of your Guangdong and Jiangxi representative is also on the restoration list!" ”

Chang Zhenbang smiled faintly and said: "That's just hypocrisy and wrongdoing, real people with lofty ideals don't care about getting a little dust for the country and the people!" After all, the world will understand Zhenbang's painstaking efforts. ”

Li Houji laughed angrily: "Haha, what you said is really good, do you think that everyone in the world is stupid?" There are people in the Thirteen Provincial Overseers who understand! ”

Chang Zhenbang sighed and said, "If everything is foreseen, it will be wasted if it is not prepared!" This is the principle of Zhenbang. He turned back to Zhang Xiaoliu and said, "Please come out of Mr. Tang and the distinguished guests!" Soon, Tang Baichuan and Li Yuanhong appeared in front of Li Houji from behind Chang Zhenbang.

Li Houji was stunned for a moment, and Chang Zhenbang said with a smile: "Zhenbang was ordered by President Li Yuanhong to crusade against the restoration traitor Zhang Xun, do you think it is credible, Brother Houji?" Ha ha. Randomly asked people to take the stunned Li Houji down, and after eating and drinking and taking care of him, he asked Zhang Youneng to escort Li Houji to Beijing with a company of people.

With Li Yuanhong's card Chang Zhenbang quickly pacified Fujian, this is not how cowardly Fujian is, how if, you must know that after the Wuhan civil unrest, Fujian is one of the main forces to crusade against the rule of the Manchurians, but after the Kui Chou Rebellion, it was cut on a large scale, and only Li Houji's brigade of armed forces was left in the province, which shows the degree of disgust in the eyes of Emperor Hong Xian, and Jiangxi is not a good place, but there are four town guards in southern Jiangxi, eastern Jiangxi, western Jiangxi, and northern Jiangxi, and Fujian only has one Fujian town guard, although after the death of Emperor Hong Xian, Duan Qirui added more Xiamen town guards and Tingzhang town guards in order to appease the old brothers, but although the names were there, the troops were insufficient, and they could only protect important ministers, which also gave Chang Zhenbang's army an opportunity to sneak attack.

Li Yuanhong immediately appointed Chang Zhenbang as the patrol envoy of Guangdong, Jiangxi and Fujian in the city of Fujian, and called on the provincial overseers to take Chang Zhenbang as an example to send troops to attack the traitor Zhang Xun, Chang Zhenbang also planned to take the opportunity to take Zhejiang and expand his own treasury, but the reaction of the Beiyang overseers was not slow, and they started almost at the same time, on July 6, Chang Zhenbang's uncle Feng Guozhang was inaugurated as the acting president in Nanjing, and appointed Ni Sichong as the commander-in-chief of the southern route of the rebel army. On 7 July, the 12th Division, which had joined the restoration camp, suddenly defected, and the Gyeonggi 2nd Brigade of Oh Chang-sik, which had been attached to the Braided Army, also joined the ranks of the rebel army. On July 10, the rebel army surrounded Fengtai and defeated Zhang Xunjun. The rebel army immediately launched an attack on Beijing, conquered the Temple of Heaven and the Imperial City on the 12th, and stared at Zhang Xun, who was the Prince of Zhongyong, the governor of Zhili and the minister of Beiyang, and the former minister of the imperial parliament, fled into the Dutch embassy, and the headquarters surrendered one after another, and the restoration failed.

Chang Zhenbang stood on the city gate tower and looked at the moonlight in the sky, couldn't help but look solemn, and said: "Third brother, Uncle Feng has become the acting president, what should Li Yuanhong do?" ”

Tang Baichuan stood beside him and said: "Your Excellency will return to Guangzhou, as for President Li, it will be better for us to stay in Fujian." ”

Chang Zhenbang said: "The position of the Fujian military envoy, can the third brother pay attention to it?" ”

Tang Baichuan said: "Fame is like a rise and fall for me, if there is no suitable person for the seventh brother in the position of Fujian Protector, the third brother may wish to recommend one." ”

Chang Zhenbang said: "Third brother, say it quickly." ”

Tang Baichuan said: "Zang Zhiping, the envoy of Zhangting Town, first served as the standard commander of the first co-commander Zhang Huaizhi's department, and then subordinated to Feng Guozhang's department. In the thirty-third year of Guangxu, he was selected to study in Jilin Lecture Martial Arts School, and returned to the ministry after leaving school. In November of the second year of the Republic of China, he was appointed by Emperor Hong Xian as the commander of the 14th Mixed Brigade. ”

Chang Zhenbang said: "Since it is the person elected by the third brother, it must be suitable!" ”

Tang Baichuan smiled faintly and said: "This person used to belong to Feng Guozhang's ministry and recommended him to be the Fujian Protector Envoy, Feng Guozhang must be grateful to the lord." ”

Chang Zhenbang thought for a long time and said, "What about the position of the envoy of Zhangting Town?" Let Wang Xifeng go on top? ”

Tang Baichuan said: "Zhangting is not important, the important thing is Xiamen, you might as well order Tang Guomo, the town guard of Xiamen, to be the guard of Zhangting Town, and at the same time appoint Wang Xifeng as the guard of Xiamen to monitor the two, so that Fujian will be peaceful." ”

Chang Zhenbang nodded and said, "Just do what the third brother wants!" I don't know what I'm doing today, I'm not interested! ”

Tang Baichuan said: "The seventh brother is exhausted, fortunately, there are many happy places in Fuzhou City, the seventh brother might as well go and have a good time." ”

Chang Zhenbang smiled faintly and said, "Third brother, are you going?" ”

Tang Baichuan said bitterly: "Seventh brother, this joke is unacceptable, your sister-in-law has suffered so much for me and suffered so many crimes, not only can't I do things that are sorry for her, but I can't even do those things that make her suspicious." ”

Chang Zhenbang said: "People say that Tang Caizi's poetry and wine are romantic, but now only poetry and wine are gone." ”

Tang Baichuan smiled and said: "The night wind is cold, if the seventh brother wants to go, go early, and if you don't go, go to bed early!" So saying, he turned and went down the castle tower, and went back to his room to rest.

Chang Zhenbang also went down the city tower, Tang Baichuan's suggestion was not bad, but somehow, he didn't seem to be interested in this, the wind blew through the fallen leaves, and Fujian in July was hot and humid, making the night a little colder, and the moonlight seemed to be colder than Guangzhou.

A piece of paper was blown from the side and pasted on the surface of Chang Zhenbang's feet, when Chang Zhenbang leaned over to pick it up, a figure suddenly appeared in the corner on the side, and the horses were caught off guard and were shot and killed, Chang Zhenbang hurriedly rolled on the spot and jumped into the gloomy alley on the side, those assassins hurriedly chased after him, and there were strange places all around, Chang Zhenbang didn't know where to run, so he had to rely on his feelings to turn into a courtyard. After the sound of the chasing assassin running through the door outside the courtyard, Chang Zhenbang finally breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly there was a cold feeling behind him, and the faint smell of gunpowder made him feel a little surprised, but he was not afraid, because there was a faint fragrance from the woman behind him, which was not strong but made him feel a little familiar.

Chang Zhenbang said: "Don't shoot, I'm not a bad person"

"There's a cowshed over there, go over there! Fast! The woman said unmoved, Chang Zhenbang had to walk to the black hole over there, and before he got close, a stinking smell came over, Chang Zhenbang's pace became slower and slower, and the woman behind him was a little impatient, and kicked Chang Zhenbang over with a kick.

Chang Zhenbang fluttered and fell into the cowshed, and a tailor-made good clothes were ruined like this, just when Chang Zhenbang raised his head to see who was so bold and dared to move his feet, but saw that the door suddenly opened stubbornly, and the assassins who had just shot came in, and the first person scolded and said: "Such a good opportunity, it is really a shame to let that turtle grandson run away, and I will be embarrassed to see General Li in the future." ”

"Big brother, what are you afraid of, if you can't kill that turtle grandson this time, isn't there a next time? The people we revolutionary death squads want to kill, and there is never one who can live! Song Jiaoren's great fame died in our hands, Chang Zhenbang can be an exception, it's really ridiculous! ”

"Shh When the captain of the decisive death team heard this, he glared at him fiercely and said: "What nonsense, although we are Mr. Sun's people, we are the guys that Mr. Sun hates the most when we act, so of course Song Jiaoren was killed by Yuan Shikai!" Because at that time, weren't we pretending to be Yuan Shikai's people! You kid also let me hear that you didn't have a door on your lips, and Lao Tzu inserted you, and there was no ambiguity! ”

"Okay, big brother, the seventh brother is also unintentional, you will not be able to chill the hearts of the brothers when you go online like this!" The third person said: "Even if the seventh brother says such things, no one will believe it now, anyway, when Mr. Sun sits in the world and sets the tone of the history books, he will always be assassinated by Yuan Shikai." ”

"It's all looking for death, who let this turtle Sun occupy Mr. Sun's position? You deserve to die! If the revolutionary party is not loyal to Mr. Sun, is it still called the revolutionary party? Bah! ”

Chang Zhenbang endured the stench, and after these people passed, there was an overwhelming snoring sound in the house, and then he slowly crawled out of the cowshed, glanced at the clothes stained with cow dung, and felt nauseous, couldn't help but want to vomit, and hurriedly covered his mouth with his hand, pouted to the wall little by little, and went over the wall at night.

This book was first published in Reading Books